![]() ![]() But he was up running about the time I had climbed halfway down the tree. The buck eased his head around the tree and being the inexperienced hunter I was I at the time, I pulled the trigger and the buck dropped. I was using 00 buckshot in an old single shot 12 gauge and had the hammer pulled back, waiting for an open shot. I could see his tail on one side and the tip of his antlers on the other. He stopped directly behind a 30-inch oak. This was the most comfortable treestand I had hunted from! I remember well a good size buck that chased a doe by that stand. I thought I was in hog heaven when I climbed some two by four steps up into an oak with a couple of boards nailed atop a couple a forked limb. When I was a year or so older, I began hunting deer with my Uncle and Aunt on some family land west of Houston. I had endured all the punishment I could stand! I remember just before dark, about the time the deer usually began moving, I crawled down and set at the base of the tree. My brother-in-law dropped me off at this location with the instructions of “stay put until dark, I’ll come get you then!” Setting atop an 8-inch diameter limb gets mighty uncomfortable after a couple hours, even to an eleven-year-old. Looking back almost sixty years to the first stand I hunted from––that was actually not a stand at all, but rather the limb of a pine tree that overlooked a small glade in the east Texas woods. ![]() The topic of hunting blinds/deer stands came up and we reflected upon just how much deer stands have changed since the sixties when we both began hunting deer. Whitetail”) and I have produced for the past 11 years. I was recently recording “Campfire Talk,” the weekly radio segment that Larry Weishuhn (aka “Mr. Luke Clayton and Larry Weishuhn reflect upon just how much deer stands have changed since the sixties when they both began hunting deer. ![]()
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